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- >>>>> "Stewart" == Stewart Smith <ssmith@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au> writes:
-
- Stewart> Hi People, Which spread-sheets and word-processors work
- Stewart> under Executor/Linux? A while back I tried MS Word 5.1
- Stewart> under 1.99c demo version. It seemed to work most of the
- Stewart> time, but I didn't test it extensively.
-
- Word 5.1 should run nicely under Executor/Linux 1.99m. Unfortunately,
- there are still some outstanding printing problems. There are some
- special characters (bullets) that get printed out wrong over here (a
- NeXT printer and an HP running an old version of GhostScript) and on
- top of that, many other people with PostScript printers say that our
- output won't print at all.
-
- Stewart> Does MS Word 5.1 work reliably? How about MS Excel? If
- Stewart> so, which version?
-
- Excel 4.x should work nicely. Same printing problems, though.
-
- Stewart> I need something that will work almost seamlessly, since
- Stewart> the people who will be using it are computing novices...
-
- I am not an objective judge. I think it's close enough to be worth
- trying, especially under 1.99m. You might want to tweak some
- environment variables (SystemFolder, ConfigurationFolder, perhaps
- MacVolumes) so that each user can have her/his own System and
- Configuration area.
-
- Please let us know how it turns out. If there are problems, we'll try
- to fix them, since this sort of use of Executor is in fact what it's
- planned for. Probably the best e-mail address to send status reports
- to is "bugs@ardi.com", even if (I cross my fingers here) you have more
- praise than bugs to send.
-
- --Cliff
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